There has been alot of interest lately in an app called iAlertU, an alarm for your MacBook Pro, and a video showing it in action.

I had been working on a similar project for fun and for my own use, however, iAlertU doesn’t currently work with iBooks or PowerBooks, so I thought people might be interested in this.

In the stuffit file is a version for the iBook, a version for the Powerbook and also it’s source (an Xcode project). It may also work on the MacBook Pro, but I am not able to test that.

It differs from iAlertU in that there is obviously no remote activation, though this could be set up to work from a bluetooth phone using an app like the excellent Romeo. To activate the alarm simply double click the icon, to deactivate, quit the app.

Guys ive made modifications to the orginal code and added some features like growl notifications and some cosmetic clean up, im currently working on removing the dock icon and adding a passcode to disable the alarm instead of the current method.

the idea of disabling sleep when the ibooks lid is closed, its a idea that im well aware of but i cant code that kinda stuff but if anyone wants to help out and look at the code and tell me how to add that, well that would be fantastic.

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